Cirque's TORUK—The First Flight, set thousands of years before the events of the movie, depicts the first of the Na'vi people to successfully ride a great leonopteryx through the Pandoran skies.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- "Toruk: The First Flight," a new Cirque du Soleil show based on James Cameron's hit movie "Avatar," will ... refers to the great leonopteryx, the mighty red and orange predator ...

But for those less unsettled by the idea of leaping on to the back of a wild beast in an effort to tame it, The Great Leonopteryx offers a much cooler alternative than the bike lane to work.

Avatar: The Game, Ubisoft’s 2009 attempt at a playable Na’vi adventure, took the wind out of the Great Leonopteryx’s wings with janky controls and paint-by-numbers action. At the time ...

And so Avatar continues its rise and rise and rise, almost as if it were a Na’vi warrior soaring high on the back of a great leonopteryx. James Cameron’s game-changing epic has just become the ...

The creatures of Avatar are imaginative answers to such ... Both, the Mountain Banshee and the Great Leonopteryx, are brightly-colored flying creatures that are a mix of different animals ...

As the world of Pandora returns to theaters, we learn a bit more about the distinct creatures, old and new, that roam the gorgeous locations of the Avatar movies. It’s finally here: Avatar 2 ...